Thursday, April 30, 2015

We
hope Marquette can pick up one of the top available players fromour rankings
here. Tonight we run through the competition -
ranking all the conferences competing with the Big East for bids, and ranking
both their teams and top 40 players.

A pretty exciting league this year. The talest player Mamadou Ndiaye (7-foot-6 of UC Irvine) is back after giving Louisville a scare in the tournament and UC Santa Barbara have a great backcourt. However, we have Hawaii as a big threat to beat someone in the tournament as it appears players are finally figuring out it is a nice place to live if you are looking to transfer or pick a college.

Natl Rnk

Conference

Team

Record

Raw

Value Add

14

Big West

BW

14.16

72

Hawaii

22--13

26.75

22.87

97

UC Irvine

21--13

19.24

20.30

110

UC Santa Barbara

19--14

17.10

18.45

155

Long Beach St.

16--17

13.56

15.62

160

Cal Poly

13--16

14.52

15.34

180

UC Davis

25--7

7.50

14.30

257

UC Riverside

14--17

7.34

9.61

323

Cal St. Northridge

9--24

2.17

5.52

324

Cal St. Fullerton

9--22

3.79

5.42

Natl Rnk

Top 40 Players

Team

Ht

Yr

Value Add

208

Vincent, Gabe 2

UC Santa Barbara

6'3

2 So

5.06

308

Bryson, Michael 24

UC Santa Barbara

6'4

4 Sr

4.46

416

Bobbitt, Roderick 5

Hawaii

6'3

4 Sr

3.92

450

Morgan, Reese 5

Cal Poly

6'2

4 Sr

3.79

467

Valdes, Aaron 23

Hawaii

6'5

3 Jr

3.69

470

Fox, Josh 21

UC Davis

6'6

4 Sr

3.68

529

Fleming, Isaac 0

Hawaii

6'3

2 So

3.45

582

Young, Alex 1

UC Irvine

6'1

4 Sr

3.25

629

Ndiaye, Mamadou 34

UC Irvine

7'6

3 Jr

3.1

630

Bland, Jaylen 1

UC Riverside

6'3

4 Sr

3.1

635

Jones, Branford 14

Long Beach St.

6'1

3 Jr

3.07

690

Pope, Austin

Hawaii/Maybe

6'6

3 Jr

2.95

704

Johns, Taylor 5

UC Riverside

6'7

4 Sr

2.93

775

Martin, Jaron 0

UC Irvine

5'10

3 Jr

2.72

852

Smith, Quincy 11

Hawaii

6'1

4 Sr

2.57

861

Thomas, Mike 25

Hawaii

6'7

3 Jr

2.55

863

Jankovic, Stefan 33

Hawaii

6'11

3 Jr

2.54

904

Nwaba, David 0

Cal Poly

6'4

4 Sr

2.44

919

Hammonds, Travis 24

Long Beach St.

6'6

3 Jr

2.41

998

Awich, Joel 25

Cal Poly

6'7

4 Sr

2.24

1004

North, Deontae 13

Long Beach St.

6'4

2 So

2.24

1010

Webster-Chan, Negus 14

Hawaii

6'7

3 Jr

2.23

1057

Monson, Neal 22

UC Davis

6'10

3 Jr

2.17

1137

Nelson, Luke 10

UC Irvine

6'3

3 Jr

2.04

1229

Johnson, Lanerryl 10

Cal St. Fullerton

6'1

4 Sr

1.92

1235

Dunning, Dominique 24

UC Irvine

6'4

4 Sr

1.92

1243

Shipley, Ridge 10

Cal Poly

6'0

3 Jr

1.89

1317

Saprykinas, Haroldas 11

UC Irvine

6'2

2 So

1.8

1321

Bennett, Brian 34

Cal Poly

6'9

4 Sr

1.78

1372

Hale-Edmerson, Tre 11

Cal St. Northridge

6'7

4 Sr

1.73

1510

Childress, Eric 1

UC Santa Barbara

6'0

3 Jr

1.56

1613

Ford, Hunter 0

UC Santa Barbara

6'3

3 Jr

1.43

1647

Toth, Kyle 13

Cal Poly

6'2

4 Sr

1.38

1673

Wright, Aaron 32

UC Irvine

6'3

4 Sr

1.35

1701

Taylor, T.J. 11

UC Santa Barbara

5'9

4 Sr

1.31

1740

Brown, Taran

UC Santa Barbara

6'8

3 Jr

1.27

1838

Shamburger, Keith

Hawaii

6'0

4 Sr

1.15

1841

Levin, Gabe

Long Beach St.

6'7

2 So

1.15

1925

Jovanovic, Stefan 15

Hawaii

6'11

3 Jr

1.06

1937

Tang, Chris 31

UC Riverside

6'3

2 So

1.05

These are the top 40 players in the conference based on the
rankings at www.valueaddbasketball.com.
The team rankings are 50% based on the sum of each team’s Value Add ratings and
50% based on last year (since better teams typically replenish after losing
stars). With over 4000 players projected in the database, we WELCOME all
corrections in the comments field.

Value Add was first introduced on www.crackedsidewalks.com, and
calculates how many points better each player is worth to his team over how
good they would be if he was replaced. The projections measure the standard
improvement in a player between his freshman, sophomore, junior and senior
seasons, and the evaluation of incoming freshman and JUCO players.